Post Grad

Bledel plays a determined but naive college grad who ends up back home with her dysfunctional family. Gilford, the adorable quarterback from NBC’s Friday Night Lights, plays the long-suffering best friend with a secret crush on her. Call it When Rory Gilmore Met Matt Saracen… ”People still see me as Rory,” says Bledel, ”and this kind of picks up where Gilmore Girls left off” (though Lorelai never picked her teeth with a chicken bone, the way Lynch does as Bledel’s Post Grad mom). As for Gilford, he admits that he — gasp! — never followed Bledel’s show, but sensed a kindred soul: ”She’s such a dork, and that’s why I love her.”